The Panther

Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site] Index Previous Next The Panther Verse Indeterminate Saxon - Monge sindon geond middangeard unrimu cynn, þe we æþelu ne magon ryhte areccan ne rim witan; þæs wide sind geond world innan - 5 - fugla ond deora foldhrerendra wornas widsceope, swa wæter bibugeð þisne beorhtan bosm, brim grymetende, sealtyþa geswing. We bi sumum hyrdon wrætlice gecynd wildra secgan - 10 - firum freamærne feorlondum on eard weardian, eðles neotan æfter dunscrafum. Is þæt deor pandher bi noman haten, þæs þe niþþa bearn, wisfæste weras on gewritum cyþað - 15 - bi þam anstapan. Se is æghwam freond, duguða estig, butan dracan anum, þam he in ealle tid ondwrað leofaþ þurh yfla gehwylc þe he geæfnan mæg. ðæt is wrætlic deor, wundrum scyne - 20 - hiwa gehwylces; swa hæleð secgað, gæsthalge guman, þætte Iosephes tunece wære telga gehwylces bleom bregdende, þara beorhtra gehwylc æghwæs ænlicra oþrum lixte - 25 - dryhta bearnum, swa þæs deores hiw, blæc brigda gehwæs, beorhtra ond scynra wundrum lixeð, þætte wrætlicra æghwylc oþrum, ænlicra gien ond fægerra frætwum bliceð, - 30 - symle sellicra. He hafað sundorgecynd, milde, gemetfæst. He is monþwære, lufsum ond leoftæl, nele laþes wiht ængum geæfnan butan þam attorsceaþan, his fyrngeflitan, þe ic ær fore sægde. - 35 - Symle fylle fægen, þonne foddor þigeð, æfter þam gereordum ræste seceð dygle stowe under dunscrafum; ðær se þeodwiga þreonihta fæc swifeð on swefote, slæpe gebiesgad. - 40 - þonne ellenrof up astondeð, þrymme gewelgad, on þone þriddan dæg, sneome of slæpe. Sweghleoþor cymeð, woþa wynsumast þurh þæs wildres muð. æfter þære stefne stenc ut cymeð - 45 - of þam wongstede, wynsumra steam, swettra ond swiþra swæcca gehwylcum, wyrta blostmum ond wudubledum, eallum æþelicra eorþan frætwum. þonne of ceastrum ond cynestolum - 50 - ond of burgsalum beornþreat monig farað foldwegum folca þryþum, eoredcystum, ofestum gefysde, dareðlacende; deor efne swa some æfter þære stefne on þone stenc farað. - 55 - Swa is dryhten god, dreama rædend, eallum eaðmede oþrum gesceaftum, duguða gehwylcre, butan dracan anum, attres ordfruman. þæt is se ealda feond, þone he gesælde in susla grund, - 60 - ond gefetrade fyrnum teagum, biþeahte þreanydum, ond þy þriddan dæge of digle aras, þæs þe he deað fore us þreo niht þolade, þeoden engla, sigora sellend. þæt wæs swete stenc, - 65 - wlitig ond wynsum geond woruld ealle. Siþþan to þam swicce soðfæste men on healfa gehwone heapum þrungon geond ealne ymbhwyrft eorþan sceata. Swa se snottra gecwæð sanctus Paulus: - 70 - "Monigfealde sind geond middangeard god ungnyðe þe us to giefe dæleð ond to feorhnere fæder ælmihtig, ond se anga hyht ealra gesceafta, uppe ge niþre." þæt is æþele stenc.